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The Honest Man..
Miller, Henry | March 20, 1943 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Andre Gide and the Crisis of Modern Thought," by Klaus Mann. The crisis which French writer Gide's life and work epitomize has to do with the conflict between the individual and society. What happens to the honest man in civilized society ?, that is the grand question. Usually the man of genius begins as rebel, it is not always that, like Gide and others, he ends with acceptance. The frail ones are often crushed en route-maimed, blighted, scrapped on the dung heap. Yet in all of them, as Gide poignantly reiterates, was the desire to serve the community. But communities are not yet organized that permit this highest form of service.

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ANDRE Gide & the Crisis of Modern Thought (Book); BOOKS; MANN, Klaus; AUTHORS; GIDE, Andre, 1869-1951; BIOGRAPHY
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